RFR (XXL): 8223347: Integration of Vector API (Incubator): General HotSpot changes

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/04/2020 13:18, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
> :
> So the VM supports is enabled either because there is an explicit --add-modules or because the module is transitively reachable from the root modules.
> It means that it doesn't work if the module jdk.incubator.vector is loaded using a ModuleLayer. Users has to use XX:+EnableVectorSupport in that case.
>
Is jdk.incubator.vector is mapped to the boot loader? If so then it 
can't be loaded into a child layer.

-Alan